"The band's official taping/trading policy has always been tape and trade away. It has always played a big part in getting the music out to people all over. However, trading for profit is no good. The only way to combat this kind of thing is letting people know that there are other alternatives. Most of the time these bootleg CD's aren't even that good. There are other ways besides selling - good old-fashioned trading."

Pasty had this to add in an e-mail to the fan2fan dated 11/9/99:
"For many years, the band has allowed soundboard recordings of the live shows...many of these from pooey sounding feeds. This current tour, we have been trying out a new policy of "audience" only taping. This is not because the band is getting "too huge" for board tapes, or because they are worried about the overwhelming number of bootlegs flooding the black market. Quite simply it has to do with quality. The soundboard tapes of this band as many of you know for the most part do not sound like Guster. Board feeds do not, and cannot accurately represent the sound of Bri's drums. But, each and every venue has been forewarned about the openness of our taping policy."